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An old sailor goes to Afghanistan

Tue Nov 17, 8:00 AM
VICTORIA – Remembrance Day reveries about the sacrifice of our ancestors weren’t much on my family’s mind this year. My eldest brother landed at Kandahar Air Field some time in the pre-dawn hours of … more

Remembering Canada’s fallen

Tue Nov 10, 9:00 AM
Chilliwack’s week of remembrance got off to a noble start on Saturday at the rededication of the cenotaph at All Sappers’ Memorial Park in Sardis. Army brass from throughout the region and from across… more

Story behind Canada’s flower of remembrance

Tue Nov 10, 8:00 AM
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. Just one day be… more

Sockeye go on the witness stand

Tue Nov 10, 7:00 AM
VICTORIA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision to have a judicial inquiry into the sockeye salmon crisis has the po… more

Fixing the flu response

Fri Nov 06, 9:00 AM
Confidence in our ability to respond quickly to a global pandemic may be a little shaky these days. Vaccine shortages fo… more

Column underplays environmental threat

Tue Nov 03, 11:00 AM
Re: Usual suspects in the salmon crisis (B.C. Views, Oct. 30). Tom Fletcher describes my opposition to salmon farms and … more

Preserving agricultural land makes good sense

Tue Nov 03, 9:00 AM
Scrapping the Agricultural Land Reserve is an irresponsible idea. In October, the right-wing think tank Fraser Institute… more

B.C. VIEWS: U.S. interests pull our strings again

Tue Nov 03, 8:00 AM
VICTORIA – If you go to the grocery store and buy a can of sockeye salmon right now, chances are it will say “product of… more

Fitting tribute

Mon Nov 02, 9:00 AM
When it was announced earlier this year that the cenotaph at Keith Wilson and Vedder Road would be refurbished, there wa… more

Rafe Mair responds on rivers, salmon

Sun Nov 01, 8:00 AM
Former Socred cabinet minister and broadcaster Rafe Mair submitted the following letter to the editor to our 70 B.C. new… more
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